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The realignment is here
The first GOP popular vote win in 20 years, the Red Wave hit everywhere, 2024 realigned the electorate as much as 2016, less secure voters moved towards…
 • Patrick Ruffini
America now has more Republicans than Democrats
The end of an almost-century long era
 • Patrick Ruffini
Why this extremely viral poll result might not be real
It's unlikely that Americans are half as patriotic as they were four years ago. Here's what's happening instead.
 • Patrick Ruffini
Actually, you should look at margins, not vote share
When it comes to polls, 50 percent is just another number
 • Patrick Ruffini
Abundance is a casualty of the Realignment
The problem is the professional class
 • Patrick Ruffini
Where are the centrist insurgents?
Democrats need to fight the system, not just be more moderate.
 • Patrick Ruffini
Why the Texas gerrymander was overdue
Proportional representation what-ifs, the Mothership vortex, my op-ed on Apple's threat to polling, why Dems hate their party, polling young voters is…
 • Patrick Ruffini
The politics of maximum confrontation
How Trump ended the Republican civil war
 • Patrick Ruffini
Trump's strongest soldiers
White non-college married couples
 • Patrick Ruffini
America is moving to red states
The drivers of internal migration, big turnout expected for 2026, Elias disses Election Twitter, Chart of the Century update, hating your state, long…
 • Patrick Ruffini
Gerrymandering is forever
Welcome to the permanent 220-215 House
 • Patrick Ruffini
The shape of polarization in America
We're not as badly divided as we think, and it's all thanks to nonwhite voters
 • Patrick Ruffini
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